Hi Philip,
Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 6:25:30 PM, you wrote: > The phpdoc howto does tell us to document float > versus double but: > $i = 4.43; > print gettype($i); // double > Seems strange, this should be mentioned somewhere. > Perhaps on language.types.float. I assume it > (double) remains for historical/BC reasons in > gettype(). Yes, that was the reason I deleted double in this context. Here it is the historical reason documented: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gettype.php but I see no reason against to make this point clearer in language.types.float :-) Regards Friedhelm